Miami port tunnel

The Miami port tunnel is a planned tunnel that has triggered debate in Miami, Florida.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/379571.html
title=Planned Miami port tunnel: Can we dig it?
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Larry Lebowitz
date=January 15 2008
accessdate=2008-01-15] The tunnel would carry 26,000 vehicles a day under a waterway known as Government Cut through a pair of tunnels that would each be two lanes wide.The tunnel would be about one mile long.cite news
url=http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/01/14/16/tunnel512K.source.prod_affiliate.56.flv
title=Video: Animation showing what the tunnel would look like
publisher=Miami Herald
date=January 15 2008
accessdate=2008-01-15] The top of the tunnel would lie a minimum of 60 feet below the seabed.

According to the "Miami Herald":

According to the "Miami Herald" the financing structure of the plan is notable, for the amount of financial risk taken by the builders, in return for the long term concession on the tunnel.

Construction is projected to take 47 months. Bouygues Travaux Publics was responsible for the French side of the Channel Tunnel.As with the Channel Tunnel large tunnel boring machines would dig through soft limestone under the waterway.

Anti-Castro Cuban exiles object to the choice of the French firm because it built 11 resorts in Cuba.

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